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Flash Flood Warning 91, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 2015, 10:49 AM CDT for 7 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 2015, 10:49 AM CDT (15:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2015, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 5:00 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Owasso, OK | PONDS AND CREEKS OVERFLOWING ONTO 96ST STREET NORTH...EAST OF HIGHWAY 69. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
632 WGUS54 KTSA 181549 FFWTSA OKC035-041-097-105-131-143-147-182200- /O.NEW.KTSA.FF.W.0091.150618T1549Z-150618T2200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1049 AM CDT THU JUN 18 2015 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... NORTHERN DELAWARE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... NORTHERN MAYES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... ROGERS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... SOUTHERN CRAIG COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... SOUTHERN NOWATA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... * UNTIL 500 PM CDT THURSDAY * AT 1049 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA. 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS ALREADY OCCURRED WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE. * RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT COULD EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... CLAREMORE...TULSA...VINITA...ADAIR...BERNICE...BERNICE STATE PARK...BIG CABIN...CHELSEA...CHEROKEE STATE PARK...CLEORA... COLLINSVILLE...DISNEY...FOYIL...GROVE...HONEY CREEK STATE PARK... KETCHUM...LANGLEY...NEW ALLUWE...OCHELATA...OOLOGAH...OWASSO... PENSACOLA...RAMONA...SPERRY...TALALA...TULSA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...VERA...WATOVA AND WHITE OAK. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD TO UNKNOWN DEPTHS. IT ONLY TAKES TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER TO CARRY AWAY MOST SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND PICKUPS. TAKE A DIFFERENT ROUTE TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION OR WAIT UNTIL THE WATER RECEDES. REMEMBER... MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. && LAT...LON 3667 9462 3653 9461 3617 9600 3663 9600 $$
1 follow-up statement
802 WGUS74 KTSA 181920 FFSTSA FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 220 PM CDT THU JUN 18 2015 OKC035-041-097-105-131-143-147-182200- /O.CON.KTSA.FF.W.0091.000000T0000Z-150618T2200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ CRAIG OK-DELAWARE OK-MAYES OK-NOWATA OK-ROGERS OK-TULSA OK- WASHINGTON OK- 220 PM CDT THU JUN 18 2015 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WASHINGTON...NORTH CENTRAL TULSA...ROGERS...SOUTHERN NOWATA...NORTHERN MAYES...NORTHERN DELAWARE AND SOUTHERN CRAIG COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA UNTIL 500 PM CDT... AT 220 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS ALREADY OCCURRED WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE... CLAREMORE...TULSA...VINITA...ADAIR...BERNICE...BERNICE STATE PARK... BIG CABIN...CHELSEA...CHEROKEE STATE PARK...CLEORA...COLLINSVILLE... DISNEY...FOYIL...GROVE...HONEY CREEK STATE PARK...KETCHUM... LANGLEY...NEW ALLUWE...OCHELATA...OOLOGAH...OWASSO...PENSACOLA... RAMONA...SPERRY...TALALA...TULSA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...VERA... WATOVA AND WHITE OAK. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD TO UNKNOWN DEPTHS. IT ONLY TAKES TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER TO CARRY AWAY MOST SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND PICKUPS. TAKE A DIFFERENT ROUTE TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION OR WAIT UNTIL THE WATER RECEDES. REMEMBER... MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. && LAT...LON 3667 9462 3653 9461 3617 9600 3663 9600 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 24 min |
| Jun 17, 7:56 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 65 hr |
| Jun 17, 8:25 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 59 hr |
| Jun 17, 8:26 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 56 hr |
| Jun 17, 8:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair | 43 min |
| Jun 17, 8:34 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware | 42 hr |
| Jun 17, 8:38 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | TSA | Tulsa | 36 hr |
| Jun 17, 9:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee | 44 min |
| Jun 17, 10:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Mayes | 40 min |
| Jun 18, 1:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Creek, Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:49 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Latimer, Pushmataha | 4 hr |
| Jun 18, 3:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 3 days |
| Jun 18, 7:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 8:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 8:44 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 9:02 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 46 hr |
| Jun 18, 9:02 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 50 hr |
| Jun 18, 9:23 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 53 hr |
| Jun 18, 9:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, McIntosh, Mayes and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 18, 9:58 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 12 hr |
| Jun 18, 9:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg | 8 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 2:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 2:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Ottawa, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 4:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 18, 5:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, McIntosh, Mayes and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 6:10 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Sequoyah | 110 min |
| Jun 18, 6:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Osage and 4 more | 24 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.